Sally Brown

Lovely summer days…making lots of jam with fruit from the garden…playing with grand daughter Poppy….. reading books……and ………writing a new book on assessment, learning and teaching in higher education (how did that happen?!). Contact me on s.brown@leedsmet.ac.uk if you are interested in contributing a good practice account.

And  then Edinburgh festival  for a high octane cultural fix…….

Then on 23 August off to the eAssessment conference in Dundee where I will be running a session on ‘What’s so special about eAssessment?’ Watch out for my Twitter feeds on the day @ProfSallyBrown.

Then September…. mostly on hand for the arrival of Poppy’s baby brother (Poppy says he is going to be called Rainbow Carpark!) and some trips to Plymouth, Birkbeck for the ‘Marked Improvement’ project forum, Anglia Ruskin University and  that’s about it!

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (16th-18th July) this week, Phil and I are working  with Plymouth University on a major curriculum refreshment project and my presentations for all three workshops on induction, refreshing the curriculum and designing short fat modules plus my tool for reviewing assessment  are available to all Plymouth staff via PVC Pauline Kneale’s office.

These are my last workshops this summer, and I am looking forward to a lovely garden summer at home, plus a trip to the Edinburgh Festival.

Here are the slides I used at the Getting Published workshop at Peterborough on the 3rd of July Peterborough College ARU (518 downloads)

Phil, Liz McDowell and I presented at the Cumbria University Assessment Conference in Birmingham on 26th June, ‘Making the most of Masters Level assessment’, where we showcased the outcomes of the Assimilate project and related it to the work of the Assessment for learning CETL that Liz McDowell led.  The slides we used are here. Presentation at Birmingham (484 downloads) . Here also is the workbook we issued Masters level workbook (757 downloads) . The compendium can be downloaded as indicated in the slides for the presentation.

On Thursday I was at Hull University  leading workshops on ‘Inspiring Teaching’ Hull slides inspiring (467 downloads) and ‘How can we best support students in transition into university, from level to level and into employment?’ Hull slides (501 downloads) .
On Friday I will again be supporting staff at Anglia Ruskin University who are working towards principal and Senior Fellowships of the HEA.
Good job Phil and I had a lovely holiday in France last week! 

Sorry for those who had trouble downloading files – all should be fine now.

• South of England: at University of Chichester, Bognor campus, Thursday 20th June.
• Northern Ireland: at University of Ulster, Coleraine, Friday June 21st.
• Wales: University of South Wales, at Pontypridd, Friday 5th July.

Today, Phil and I are working at Regent’s University, contributing to a day lead by Assia Rolls, on maximising the potential of assessment and feedback. The slides I’ve used on streamlining assessment and masters’ level assessment are here streamlining assessment (539 downloads) , M level assessment (529 downloads) . See Phil’s website for his slides on ‘assessment as learning’ (http://phil-race.co.uk/29/05/2013/regents-university-london-29th-may).
Phil and I particularly enjoyed hearing inputs from staff at Regent’s University, where they shared examples of good practice. Thanks to Azam Ali, Winfred Mfuh and John Diamondopoulos, Darren Cullen, Anabel Gutierrez and Chris Rowell, and Chris Pickford.

• North of England: at Durham University, Friday 31st May.
• South of England: at University of Chichester, Bognor campus, Thursday 20th June.
• Northern Ireland: at University of Ulster, Coleraine, Friday June 21st.
• Wales: University of South Wales, at Pontypridd, Friday 5th July.